Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1887-01-19
Labor Notes.

Two more dynamite explosions have oc.
Cured In San Francis co. and although no
one was injured the cause OF the street car
strikers has not been assisted thereby.
About 1000 hands struck work on the
18th at 2. Lorillard's tobacco factory,
Jersey City, because of proposed reduc.
ton in their wages. Last week Assistant
superintendent Brown notified the en-
ployes in the plug department that their
wages would be reduced 25 cents on each
1000 pounds, and the wages of those work
ing by the week would be cut down from SO to
Sc. On the 18th Mr.. Brown discharged
seven men in the plug department.. He
filed their places with two new men. The
discharge of these new men was demanded
by the employees, who refused to work with
them. The superintendent refused to COM
ply, and the entire force in thatdepartment
struck. At noon they were followed by4OO
men from the box factory and 400 girls in
the filling department.. The remaining en-
ployes quit work in the afternoon. The
last to go out were the girls who put rev.
enue stamps on the manufactured goods.
The entire force OF about $500 employees
are now out, and the large factories are
idle. The strikers dispersed quietly, and
there was no disorder.
The switchmen and brakemen's strike on
the Louisville & Nashville Road is virtually
over, the strikers having been obliged to
seek situations elsewhere.
The trou bles which have existed for some
time between the beer brewers and the
Knights of Labor, of Philadelphia have
been practically settled, Local Assembly No.
1858, which was suspended some time
ago by the district executive board, having
been reinstqted. The executive board will
take charge OF the strike and endeavor to
effect settlement.
The statement was made on the 18th
that at least 5000 men have been thrown
out OF employment and that 30 600 per-
sons are suffering g q result of the strike of
5000 coal handere. The strikers are scat
tered all along the coast from Providence
to New York. They have been confident
that they would win as they thought they
had the coal supply o New England entirely
cut off. 1t now seems that the New York
81 Now England railroad has been using cars
OF every description and rushing hundreds
OF thousands OF tons of coal into New En-
gland daily. This has been kept secret
but on it's coming out it seemed to depress
the strikers.
The strike of the journeyman brewers
union against the brewers association at
Detroit assumed new phase on the 18th.
Since the lockout the union has been i'm
porting beer from Toledo and Cincinnati
and the home breweries' orders have stead
lily decreased. To this pressure three
brewers have succumbed and it is expected
that more will speedily follow. The cost of
the strike to the employers has been great.
The men on the other hand have not suffered
much, having had liberal percentage on
all sales of the foreign beer.
A general strike on the lines of the High
land and Middlesex Street Car Companies,
in Boston, which began on the morning of
the 18th. was settled the next morning by
the concessions OF the companies. Within
ten hours of the announcement of the
strike, $4,000 had been voted in aid OF
the strikers by the employees Of the other
city lines,
At San Francisco. CAL, ON the 10th, as
dummy of the Geary Street cable road was
in Scott Street an explosion occurred which
was heard for several blocks and which
badly ratified the windows in tho neighbour
hood. A dense cloud of brown smoke arose,
and when this had cleared away it was
found that the woodwork of the dummy
was a complete wreck, the front seats be-
ing blown off, oaken cross supports snap
ped like straws and the footboards split
their entire length. By extraordinary
chance none OF the passengers, though sew
eral were riding, were injured. There is no
doubt that dynamite was the explosive
and the existing strike the cause Of the ex-
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